Lake County Zoning Code § 46.14 Access requirements

• (a) Parking lots are to be designed and improved to prevent vehicular access at any point other than designated points of ingress (entrance) or egress (exit). This applies to both commercial and residential areas. Driveway access locations shall be approved by the Review Authority.

• (b) Each developed site shall not have more than two (2) accessways to any one street, except as provided for in a required use permit.

• (c) There should be a minimum distance of twenty-four (24) feet between driveway curb cuts along any street frontage.

• (d) No driveway shall be allowed to encroach closer than twenty (20) feet to the end or beginning of the radius on any street corner unless approved by the Department of Public Works.

• (e) The width of a driveway providing access to a parking lot from the public street or between separate parking areas on a site is to be a minimum of twelve (12) feet for one-way access, twenty (20) feet for multiple-family residential, and commercial or industrial two-way access. (Ord. No. 1749, 7/7/1988)

• (f) No driveway entering onto a right-of-way shall exceed a width of thirty (30) feet.

• (g) For commercial use a driveway access grade of no more than eight (8) percent shall be allowed for the first forty (40) feet, thereafter a grade of over twelve (12) percent shall not be acceptable without prior approval of Planning Department and Department of Public Works.

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• (h) For single-family residential uses in all “APZ”, “A”, “TPZ”, “RL”, “RR” and “SR” zoning districts, the first fifty (50) feet of a driveway beginning at the edge of the existing improved surface shall be constructed and maintained with an allweather surface. An all weather surface includes: Six (6) inches of gravel or crushed rock, an oil and rock surface, asphaltic concrete, or concrete.

In all other zoning districts, all driveways shall be constructed and maintained with an all-weather surface of asphaltic concrete or concrete unless another allweather surface is approved by the Review Authority. (Ord. No. 1749, 7/7/1988)

• 46.15 Design specification requirements: Parking lots shall be designed according to minimum specifications as set forth in this Section and Table 1. A sample parking and circulation plan is provided in Figure 1 to show how the minimum specifications may be applied. (Ord. No. 1749, 7/7/1988; Ord. No. 2128, 1/14/1993)

  • (a) The required front yard setback dimension (A) as shown in Figure 1 shall be as specified for the zone in which the parking lot is to be located or as provided in Article 41; however, such dimension shall not be less than ten feet (10) unless modified as permitted in Article 41.

  • (b) The wheelstop setback dimension (E) as shown in Figure 1 shall be a minimum of three (3) feet.

  • (c) The minimum driveway width (F) at any parking stall angle less than forty five (45) degrees, including parallel stalls, shall be twelve (12) feet as shown in Figure 1.

  • (d) The turnaround or end driveway width (G) as shown in Figure 1 shall be a minimum of eighteen (18) feet.

• (e) Parking areas are to be designed so as to not require or encourage cars to back out into a public street, public or private pedestrian walk, or public alley, in order to leave the lot or to maneuver out of the parking space.

  • (f) Except as provided for in Section 46.13(f), no parking space shall be designed to back out directly toward a right-of-way without a minimum clearance between right-of-way and the rear of the stall of twenty five (25) feet at a ninety (90) degree angle.

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• (Note: For any given parking angle not specifically listed in Table 1, use a table angle nearest the given angle, or an average of the two appropriate measurements.)

  • (g) Parking may be designed to include tandem parking only in the following situations:

    1. In a parking area serving a single-family dwelling, duplex, triplex, or fourplex residential development where the tandem parking is not more than two (2) cars in depth provided that such parking is in tandem to and adjacent to required covered parking. (Ord. No. 1749, 7/7/1988; Ord. No. 2128, 1/14/1993)

    2. In a public garage or public parking lot where all parking is performed by attendants at all times, or for public assembly facilities and temporary events where user arrivals and departures are simultaneous and parking is attendant-directed.

    3. For all-day employee parking lots restricted to employee use, provided that required aisle widths are maintained, and no more than fifty (50) percent of the employee spaces are designed for tandem use.

  • (h) All parking lots providing ten (10) or more spaces, or any parking lot which contains angled parking, shall provide permanent directional markers to indicate driveway location and circulation pattern.

  • (i) Parking lot spaces serving multifamily residential, commercial and industrial uses which face sidewalks, walkway curbs or landscaped perimeters shall be provided with adequate wheel stops.

  • (j) All parking lots containing four (4) or more spaces shall be required to submit a landscaping plan as set forth in Article 41, Section 41.9.

  • (k) A parking lot of four (4) or more spaces shall be surfaced with an asphaltic, cement, or other appropriate pavement material to provide a durable surface. It shall be graded and drained to dispose of all surface water accumulated, and shall be arranged and marked to provide for orderly and safe loading, unloading, parking and storage of vehicles.

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• 46.16 Drive-in and drive-through facilities: In addition to the parking space requirements of Section 46.5, retail or service commercial uses providing drive-in and drive-through services shall provide the following:

  • (a) Staking area: An area that is physically separated from other traffic circulation on the lot shall be provided for cars waiting for drive-through service. The stacking area is to accommodate at least four (4) cars per drive-through window in addition to the car(s) receiving service. Separation of the stacking area from other traffic shall be by concrete or asphalt curb.

  • (b) Lane separation: An on-site circulation pattern shall be provided for drivethrough traffic that separates such traffic from that of parking customers. Separation should be by paint-striped lanes from the point of lot access to the stacking area. Such lanes shall be at least ten (10) feet wide.

  • (c) Access driveways or lanes to drive-through windows shall diverge, not converge.

  • (d) Directional signs: Signs are to be provided that indicate the entrance, exit and one-way path of drive-through lanes.